Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with similar results

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/oops-how-google-bombed-while-doing

Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with similar results

I will always remember today (my birthday no less), February 8, 2023, as the day in which a chatbot-induced hallucination cost Alphabet $100 billion. But I will also remember it as the week in which Microsoft introduced an ostensibly similar technology, with ostensibly similar problems, to an entirely different response.

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@garymarcus I can remember bullshit about AI from fifty years ago.
@garymarcus The most terrifying aspect of this story is how investors - controlling insane amounts of money and power - base their decisions on hype and trivialities rather than on any serious understanding of the state of the technology and the true strengths and weaknesses of the companies involved.
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Lol "Google bombed" is what we did to horrible people back in the 2000s to poison searches for their names. Memories.